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Then the circle of the site expanded to include any college student, then high school
students, and finally anyone aged 13 and over, this site currently has more than one
billion users globally. There has been a lot of controversy around Facebook over the
past few years.
There has been a lot of controversy around Facebook over the past few years, the use
of the site has been banned in many countries during varying periods, such as in Syria
and Iran, the use of the site has also been banned in many workplaces to discourage
employees from wasting their time using that service, and there is criticism directed at
Facebook, such as concerns about maintaining privacy, and it is considered one of the
problems faced by site visitors
The origin and history of Facebook:
Facebook was launched as an unexpected product of Harvard University's
(Facematch), a site of the type Hot or Not depends on publishing pictures of a group
of people and then choosing the site's visitors for the most attractive person Mark
Zuckerberg created Face Match on October 28, 2003 when he was attending Harvard
University as a second-year student in the meantime.
According to Harvard Crimson, (FaceMatch) "used collages from the online photo
directory of nine university students with two photos next to each other and inviting
users to choose the 'most attractive' person." In order to create the site, Zuckerberg
hacked into protected areas of Harvard's computer network and copied photos of
students in the dormitory.
Facebook OS:
Facebook launched the Facebook Platform operating system on May 24, 2007 and
relied on providing a framework for software developers in order to create applications
that can interact with Facebook's main features, and a programming language that
uses markup tags called Facebook Markup Language was introduced at the same time
and this language is used in order to customize the overall shape of the applications
that developers create.
Figure 46: Facebook
Application Interface -
Create a new account
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